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Escape from Paradise, – Now being made into a movie!

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The book’s sensational reviews!

“It took me two and a half evenings to complete your un-put-downable book…it is a unique contribution to the appreciation of a life in Singapore. Thank you for having written it.”C. V. Devan Nair, former President of Singapore.

“Bought the book from Select this weekend and can’t put it down! It’s a great read! And so nostalgic for me—the good old days!” Glen Goei, writer and director of the Miramax film That’s the Way I Like It and who played the title role opposite Anthony Hopkins in the London production of M. Butterfly. Mr. Goei’s latest film isThe Blue Mansion – Click for the trailer!

“It is a remarkable story and so full of intrigue that it reads at times like fiction.” Jonathan Burnham, Editor in Chief & President, Talk Miramax Books.

“This book out-Dallas, Dallas. No one has written so well of the other side of paradise,” Francis T. Seow, former Solicitor General of Singapore

ThunderBall Films is successfully putting together the movie production of Escape from Paradise and has received a new LOI (Letter of Intent) from actress Bai Ling who starred with Richard Gere in the film Red Cross.

This includes a commitment from a CPA firm who does tax credit financing in Ireland, a possible location to film, as part of the package needed for investors – along with the CPA firm’s commitment to apply for and finance the tax credits if ThunderBall does shoot in Ireland and what portion of the budget they would provide.
For inquiries, please contact John Harding at jbharding@gmail.com.

In Sri Lanka alone, 3,000 workers were to be trained. Rajiv Shah’s USAID said the agency would be training people in enterprise Java, even though “the majority of prospective trainees lacked even basic experience with computers.”

Thanks, at least in part, to our post on the subject, USAID has “suspended” its plan to train Sri Lankans in computer skills, and says it will review whether this training impacts U.S. jobs.

Rep. Tim Bishop (D-NY) said USAID’s plan to provide about 3,000 Sri Lankans training in information technology, business process outsourcing and call center support was, in effect, “teaching foreign workers how to better take jobs from American workers.”

Bishop announced the program’s suspension in a statement released last Thursday, September 9th. Rajiv Shah and other USAID officials declined comment on the situation.

According to Bishop, however, USAID told him that it “has suspended a job skills development project in Sri Lanka while Rajiv Shah conducts a review to ensure the project will not take any jobs away from Americans.”

What “review” is needed? Isn’t it obvious that outsourcing computer jobs to Sri Lankans (and Armenians) will take jobs away from Americans.

USAID chief Rajiv Shah appears to be representing the interests of Bill Gates and big business—and not of the American people.

It is time for USAID to fire Rajiv Shah and return him to the employ of Bill Gates.